Running Tomcat in the background

[Shravan Shashikant <s0...@unix.tamu.edu>]

Hi there,
   I am a new Tomcat User and am using it on an Apache Webserver 1.13 on Windows 2000 and am using Tomcat 3.1 .I am using Java Servlets and JDBC to communicate with my Access database.Everything runs well except that I have 2 problems :
  1. I wish to run tomcat in the background as a service just like the Apache Webserver.Right now,I need to startup Tomcat by going thru the command prompt and it shows some context log screen.I want to make this independent just like APache runs which as a service(irrespective of who has logged on or even if nobody has logged on).
  2.Time and again when I run Tomcat,it just crashes without any reason.Sometimes it says RELOAD!.Any ideas as to what I need to do??
Any help with regard to my q's r welcome and greatly appreciated!!
Thanks,
Shravan